The Parallel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE CFCF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Yes sad one of Sion if closely resembling | A |
| In shame and in sorrow thy wither'd up heart | B |
| If drinking deep deep of the same cup of trembling | A |
| Could make us thy children our parent thou art | B |
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| Like thee doth our nation lie conquer'd and broken | C |
| And fall'n from her head is the once royal crown | D |
| In her streets in her halls Desolation hath spoken | C |
| And while it is day yet her sun hath gone down | D |
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| Like thine doth her exile 'mid dreams of returning | A |
| Die far from the home it were life to behold | E |
| Like thine do her sons in the day of their mourning | A |
| Remember the bright things that bless'd them of old | E |
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| Ah well may we call her like thee the Forsaken | C |
| Her boldest are vanquish'd her proudest are slaves | F |
| And the harps of her minstrels when gayest they waken | C |
| Have tones 'mid their mirth like the wind over graves | F |
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| Yet hadst thou thy vengeance yet came there the morrow | G |
| That shines out at last on the longest dark night | H |
| When the sceptre that smote thee with slavery and sorrow | G |
| Was shiver'd at once like a reed in thy sight | H |
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| When that cup which for others the proud Golden City | I |
| Had brimm'd full of bitterness drench'd her own lips | J |
| And the world she had trampled on heard without pity | I |
| The howl in her halls and the cry from her ships | J |
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| When the curse Heaven keeps for the haughty came over | K |
| Her merchants rapacious her rulers unjust | L |
| And a ruin at last for the earthworm to cover | K |
| The Lady of Kingdoms lay low in the dust | L |
Thomas Moore
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